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“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Speech without heart is nothing but noise.”

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Book:Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why people with conventional interests seem more socially intelligent. Even if they don't check whether their audience cares, it probably does.”

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Author:Bryan Caplan

“The language lifted up my heart whenever I read it, and as I spoke it, it possessed me, it sang through me. When I ended, I heard for the first time in my life that silence which is the performer's sweetest reward.”

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Book:Gifts

Source: Gifts

“Erasure is as important as writing. Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. . . . The best method of correction is to put aside for a time what we have written, so that when we come to it again it may have an aspect of novelty, as of being another man's work; in this way we may preserve ourselves from regarding our writings with the affection that we lavish upon a newborn child.”

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Book:De Institutione Oratoria

Source: De Institutione Oratoria

“I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge”

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Author:Aristotle

“True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only prevail where truth is not understood, for knowledge and simplicity are the foundation of all true eloquence. Eloquence abounds in beautiful and natural images, sublime but simple conceptions, in passionate but plain words. Burning words appeal to the emotions as well as to the intellect; they stir the soul and touch the heart.”

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Author:Albert Ellery Bergh

“But we are not to be saved by the captain, at this time, but by the crew. We are not to be saved by Abraham Lincoln, but by that power behind the throne, greater than the throne itself. You and I and all of us have this matter in hand.”

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Book:The Life of Frederick Douglass: Complete Autobiographies, Speeches & Personal Letters in One Volume

Source: The Life of Frederick Douglass: Complete Autobiographies, Speeches & Personal Letters in One Volume